WampServer

I just uninstalled 2.0 and installed 2.5. I also had to install MSVCR110.dll on my win 7 machine.

2.0 worked great, but the 2.5 icon is orange and the hover says the server is online, but no access when I click for phpmyadmin.

Any ideas?

If the wampmanager icon is not GREEN then one (or both ) of the services ( Apache(wampapache)/MySQL(wampmysqld) ) has not started properly.

If Apache is the service that is not running it is normally, but not always, because something else has captured port 80.

Now do,
Left click the wampmanager icon to reveal the menu-> Apache -> Service -> Test port 80
This will launch a command window and display some information about what, if anything is using port 80.

Whatever it is should be re-configured to not use port 80 or uninstalled if you are not using it.

If port 80 is not the problem look for errors in the appropriate error log ( use the wamp manager menus to view the error logs )

If these do not exists or show no errors then also check the Windows Event Viewer
Start -> Administrative Tools -> Event Viewer
And look in the 'Windows Logs' -> Application' section accessed from the menu on the left of the dialog for error messages from Apache and or MySQL.


How to Configure SKYPE so it does not require port 80 or 443
( This does not appear to be necessary on recent versions i.e. after march 2014 )

Run SKYPE
then using the menus do this:
Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> Connection
Un-Check the checkbox next to 'Use port 80 and 443 as alternatives for incomming connections'
Now restart SKYPE for these changes to take effect.

If you are running Windows 8 SKYPE comes as a tiled app and this cannot ( as yet ) be configured in this way.
However if you uninstall the SKYPE app and install SKYPE in the old way, you can reconfigure it, and it works just as well.

How to Configure Team Viewer so it does not require port 80 or 443
Run TV
Extras -> Options -> Advanced -> Press the Advanced Button -> Advanced Network Connections
Check the checkbox saying [ Dont use incomming port 80 (recommended for web servers only )

If the problem is not obvious then post the errors here

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(Windows 10 Pro 64bit) (Wampserver 3.3.4 64bit) Aestan Tray Menu 3.2.5.4
<Apache versions MULTIPE> <PHP versions MULTIPLE> <MySQL Versions MULTIPLE>
<MariaDB versions MULTIPLE> <phpMyAdmin versions MULTIPLE> <MySQL Workbench 8.0.23>
Read The Manuals Apache -- MySQL -- PHP -- phpMyAdmin
Get your Apache/MySQL/mariaDB/PHP ADDONs here from the WAMPServer alternate Repo
-X-X-X- Backup your databases regularly Here is How dont regret it later! Yes even when developing -X-X-X-

port 80 not being used.

no error logs.

nothing in the event viewer from mysql or apache.

here's the last few lines from from the mysql log:

2014-09-24 18:07:22 7992 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled.
2014-09-24 18:07:22 7992 [Note] InnoDB: Using atomics to ref count buffer pool pages
2014-09-24 18:07:22 7992 [Note] InnoDB: The InnoDB memory heap is disabled
2014-09-24 18:07:22 7992 [Note] InnoDB: Mutexes and rw_locks use Windows interlocked functions
2014-09-24 18:07:22 7992 [Note] InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.3
2014-09-24 18:07:22 7992 [Note] InnoDB: Not using CPU crc32 instructions
2014-09-24 18:07:22 7992 [Note] InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, size = 128.0M
2014-09-24 18:07:22 7992 [Note] InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool
2014-09-24 18:07:23 7992 [Note] InnoDB: Highest supported file format is Barracuda.
2014-09-24 18:07:23 7992 [Note] InnoDB: 128 rollback segment(s) are active.
2014-09-24 18:07:23 7992 [Note] InnoDB: Waiting for purge to start
2014-09-24 18:07:23 7992 [Note] InnoDB: 5.6.17 started; log sequence number 1626097
2014-09-24 18:07:23 7992 [Note] Server hostname (bind-address): '*'; port: 3306
2014-09-24 18:07:23 7992 [Note] IPv6 is available.
2014-09-24 18:07:23 7992 [Note] - '::' resolves to '::';
2014-09-24 18:07:23 7992 [Note] Server socket created on IP: '::'.
2014-09-24 18:07:23 7992 [Note] Event Scheduler: Loaded 0 events
2014-09-24 18:07:23 7992 [Note] wampmysqld: ready for connections.
Version: '5.6.17' socket: '' port: 3306 MySQL Community Server (GPL)

The MySQL log messages are standard messages from MySQL when it start correctly, so the issue must be with the Apache service not starting.

Ignore the 'Server Online' and 'Server Offline' info, that just means :-

Server Online = Apache accepts connections from any IP address
Server Offline = Apache accepts connections only from the local machine i.e. localhost, 127.0.0.1 and ::1

But if it is Online, then you must have changed something in the httpd.conf file as by default it installs in the Offline state.

If Apache is failing to start, I would say there should be some messages in the Windows Event log, check it again, look in this section of the log

Run Event Viewer, click on 'Windows Logs' in the left hand menu, then click on the 'Applications' menu item. Give it a few seconds to load and look at the log.

Alternatively, launch a command windows and do this :-

CD C:\wamp\bin\apache\apache2.4.9\bin
httpd -t

It should either report 'Syntax OK' or give you a line number and error message where it finds a syntax error in your httpd.conf file or any files that are included by httpd.conf

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(Windows 10 Pro 64bit) (Wampserver 3.3.4 64bit) Aestan Tray Menu 3.2.5.4
<Apache versions MULTIPE> <PHP versions MULTIPLE> <MySQL Versions MULTIPLE>
<MariaDB versions MULTIPLE> <phpMyAdmin versions MULTIPLE> <MySQL Workbench 8.0.23>
Read The Manuals Apache -- MySQL -- PHP -- phpMyAdmin
Get your Apache/MySQL/mariaDB/PHP ADDONs here from the WAMPServer alternate Repo
-X-X-X- Backup your databases regularly Here is How dont regret it later! Yes even when developing -X-X-X-



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/14/2015 12:05PM by RiggsFolly.

Thanks for your help.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 01/14/2015 11:35AM by niche.